Burgess Arboretum getting ready for spring 2010

I have not updated our blog since the fall. Many things are happening in the Burgess Arboretum at Reinhardt University in 2010. We have several Garden clubs scheduled to tour the arboretum this spring. We also are planning on working with the Master gardeners of Cherokee county this year on Re tagging all the trees in the arboretum with our brand new tree tag maker. The tag maker will allow us to create tags for trees across campus. On Thursday April 22 we will be celebrating Earth day at Reinhardt and we will be planting a Golden Weeping Willow Tree as our Burgess Arboretum tree #127 to celebrate 127 years of History at Reinhardt. We will be dedicating the tree to our Maintenance supervisor Tommy Mcburnett who passed away this winter. We also are working hard in planting over 260 American chestnut Trees in our Brand new Randall Porter American chestnut Orchard. It should be a exciting 2010 in the Burgess Arboretum. It is great to see the trees just starting to bloom this week. I will try to post updates on the arboretum monthly or if we get some exciting news about the arboretum.